If you're a business looking to license photos directly from a photographer, there are better and worse ways to respond if the photographer rejects your request and decides not to allow the use of their photos. That's what one convention recently learned the hard way.
It all started when photographer Toshiyasu “Toshi” Morita was contacted by Michael James, the co-founder of AfroComicCon, which bills itself as “the premiere comic con event for people of color and the African diaspora in the Bay Area.”
James wished to use photos that Morita had taken at an AfroComicCon event. The...Read more ...